On 09:27 Wed 22 Jul     , Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> We got an embedded gentoo system where we need to manage many conf files 
> under /etc that we have
> modified and should be under our control when an SW upgrade is performed.

Hi,

> 
> Cloning every ebuild where we have modified its conf file(s) under /etc feels 
> awkward so
> I am looking for some other way to do this automatically during SW upgrade 
> and I figured
> this can not be an unique problem for us, so I wonder how other people have 
> solved this problem?
> Our customers will not use emerge directly and we will provide binary pkgs.
> 
> Any ideas welcome :)
> 

you can subscribe to gentoo-embedded mailing list and ask there, as your product
is embedded. Also, man make.conf and search for CONFIG_PROTECT. If I understood
you correctly, it may be what you need.

Panagiotis

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Panagiotis Christopoulos ( pchrist )
    ( Gentoo Lisp Project )

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